Stop Sucking

Sorry if it’s true. It’s possible you suck at making goals. Whether you want to find true love, get rich, create an opus, or get in shape, taking the next step and making progress is all about how you define your goals. Before you start on anything, ask yourself what your goal is. And then

To make progress on anything takes the right small steps. If you are already very good at something, it’s because you know how to take those steps, but when you suck at something, the next right small step is missing. This is so common when it comes to creativity. I’ve heard from many people about the creative

“If you only had enough willpower, you’d be healthier.” Now there’s a myth I grew up with that persists today. It’s bullshit. Look it up. Willpower is a limited resource we waste on things like trying not to eat the giant piece of chocolate cake in front of us, getting to the gym when we’re

Last time it was about Love, and this time it’s about Money. There are so many ways to suck at money, and by suck, I mean you are so bad at this particular skill, it regularly gets in the way of everything else. A friend of mine was looking for work and was so daunted,

Is there something that really matters that you suck at? Love is the energy we give to help other people, especially people we care about it, and most of us suck at some aspect of it. Conflict especially makes it hard to lean in with love. It’s so tempting to stay angry and righteous. Here’s

I pretty easily glom my free floating anxiety onto money worries when I lose touch with my One Number. In my case ignorance breeds fear. (I can be a Scaredy-cat.) I’ve seen even more often that ignorance breeds denial. More than a few of my friends have squandered inheritances leaving them back where they started pretty

One year ago I made an audacious public announcement that I was going to stop sucking and kick ass for 12 months. I bound myself to rigid rules and set big goals. With the support and wonderment of many loving humans I set out on a grand experiment to see if sticking to my plan

We come just after dawn. When resources are scarce, we attack the weakest of us, the deformed and outcast. We invaginate us, drenching our bodies with acid until we are unrecognizable. Then we eat us. We are hungry. We are literally starving. This is not only how we survive; it’s how we purge evil and stay pure.

I wrote my first guest post last week for a great blog by Alexander Heyne, a 20 something motivating 20 somethings with hardcore advice and a come-along-and-fly-with-me spirit. I really like this kid, and it’s a treat to have a youngster invite me to write for his peeps. (See I’m talking like one of them,

On July 19, 2012 I declared, my life is balanced and it’s time to mess all that up to live a bigger dream. What the hell was I thinking? Now 3 months into David Delp’s Kicking Ass Plan for the Year I’m feeling the gravity of my decisions and confronting the ramifications of the rigid rules I